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survivors, particularly children and older persons, utilizing funds earmarked for care
and support to reduce women’s disproportionate burden of care;
32. Urges Governments to continue to promote the participation and the
significant contribution of people living with HIV/AIDS, young people and civil
society actors in addressing the problem of HIV/AIDS in all its aspects, including
promoting a gender perspective, and to promote their full involvement and
participation in the design, planning, implementation and evaluation of HIV/AIDS
programmes, as well as in creating an enabling environment to combat
stigmatization;
33. Welcomes the financial contributions made to date to the Global Fund to
Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, urges further contributions to sustain the
Fund, and calls upon all countries to encourage the private sector to contribute to
the Fund;
34. Reaffirms the need for Governments, supported by relevant actors, and
all stakeholders, including civil society and the private sector, to intensify national
efforts and international cooperation in the implementation of the Declaration of
Commitment on HIV/AIDS;
35. Stresses the importance of building up national competence and capacity
to provide an assessment of the impact of the epidemic, which should be used in
planning for prevention, treatment and care, and for addressing HIV/AIDS;
36. Urges the international community to complement and supplement,
through increased international development assistance, efforts of the developing
countries that commit increased national funds to fighting the HIV/AIDS pandemic,
especially to address the needs of women and girls, particularly those countries most
affected by HIV/AIDS, particularly in Africa, especially sub-Saharan Africa, and in
the Caribbean, countries at high risk of expansion of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and
countries in other affected regions whose resources for dealing with the epidemic
are seriously limited;
37.
Decides to consider this question further at its fifty-second session.
Resolution 51/2
Ending female genital mutilation
The Commission on the Status of Women,
Recalling General Assembly resolutions, 56/128 of 19 December 2001, 58/156
of 22 December 2003 and 60/141 of 16 December 2005, and all other relevant
resolutions, as well as the relevant agreed conclusions of the Commission on the
Status of Women, 19
Reaffirming that the Convention on the Rights of the Child9 and the
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 20
together with their Optional Protocols, constitute an important contribution to the
legal framework for the protection and promotion of the human rights of girls,
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